The gender and races of characters in the new Star Wars movies have nothing to do with them being poor as far as Star Wars movies go.  Rey and Finn are original characters, so Disney can make them whatever gender or race they want.  Black people existed in the original trilogy.  Finn is not a revolutionary character in the Star Wars universe.  Nor is a female main character.  I am aware of the backlash against the Mary Sue nature of Rey, but that's a bigger issue than Rey being female.  I do have an issue with both "The Force Awakens" and "The Last Jedi", but it goes way beyond race and gender of characters.  My biggest issue with the "The Force Awakens" is that it was a total and unoriginal retread of Star Wars, and I got that feeling immediately while watching it in theater opening weekend.  I don't need to see a shot for shot remake of Star Wars when I can just watch Star Wars.  Case in point, this weekend there was a Star Wars marathon on the FX channel.  I happened to miss the showing of the original Star Wars.  Instead of watching "The Force Awakens", I went into the On Demand and qued up Star Wars instead.  "The Last Jedi" has even more going against it, in that it just wasn't a very good movie.  There were completely out of place jokey scenes that just because they worked in "Guardians of the Galaxy", Disney is trying to force them into everything.  I'm talking about the kind of scenes that are hilarious in Seth McFarland's Family Guy Star Wars parodies or episodes of Robot Chicken, but have no business being in Star Wars.  Also, the 2 films are completely incongruous.  Every plotline JJ Abrams set up in TFA went nowhere or was reversed in TLJ.  Worst of all was the treatment of Mark Hamill.  They lied about how Luke would be used in the new trilogy to get him under contract.  They showed him a script where he would be heavily involved in the plotline of TFA only to reduce him to a wordless pre-credits scene, and then completely subverted the essence of his character in TLJ.  Those are my issues with the new Star Wars trilogy.  I just want a good Star Wars movie, and TLJ was completely underwhelming on that front.  

The TC is criticizing diversity in games, and not the other way around. So we are going based on the premise that diversity is bad, not that accuracy is good.

So your argument is accuracy doesn't matter because the topic creator didn't mention it?

People who think diversity is more forced than the usual are just seeing what happens when certain groups are no longer seen as a default in moves. A cast of straight white males are also just as much pandering and forced as a cast of diverse characters and is also done to capture a certain audience. We are simply in a world where that is no longer the case. Think about TV, a channel that is advertising to white people will have shows that white people want to watch, so the casts will be white in a percived move to make them more comfortable. Then someone who grew up with all their shows being white will just see it as normal and think diversity is forced. Let's stop this forced racial quotas in all white tv shows amirite?

As for "let's stop changing straight white male characters" it's not equivalent at al. Changing Lara Croft into a man is changing one of a relatively small number of female characters into a male. Making Spiderman black still leaves you with ten gorillion white superheroes and is comparitvely not a big deal. Not to mention, in the hundreds of years of media before now, 95% of the people were white because it was seen as the default. In a world that is more diverse, going back to these older properties, that's obviously gonna change as our sensibilities are different.

The problem is that people are looking at the world in some idealistic way where things are already equal and none of this is necessary because representation was and is never a problem and everyone was already treated equally, which is not the case. And even then, until we live in a post discrimination world, some of the diversity is gonna be forced. And really, who gives a shit if it is, to be honest. That doesnt really spea to the quality of the work or employee or actor at all.

Also several parts of the debate are a weak attempt to have your cake and eat it too, basically its "I want the creators to choose the best person for the job, but if the creators choose a minority then that's a problem because obviously it was forced"

This isnt directed at anyone specifically. But basically I disagree on every point.

My argument is that the focus was not on accuracy, but diversity.

Because something that is done for the sake of being that is not creating depth. It's literally the most shallow thing a trait can be and usually gets placed instead of actual meaningful character development. Multiple viewpoints and having a diverse casts are a good thing, but doing things for the sake of doing is lazy and worsens the product 99% of the time.

Okay, and the question I'm posing is why should we sacrifice accuracy for diversity?

This is spot on